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Initiative proposes creation of online advising system
In order to streamline administrative work for UC Berkeley advisers, two Operational Excel-lence initiative proposals would create an online advising system and leadership body if approved by the campus.
The student services team within the initia-tive — a campus cost-cutting initiative aiming to
By Afsana Afzaland Alisha [email protected]
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New program sets sights on closing the achievement gap
This fall, the Berkeley Unified School District will launch new programs in its schools as part of 2020 Vision, an effort to close the district’s racial achievement gap.
The programs aim to improve kindergarten readiness, third grade reading proficiency and overall attendance — three of the eight im-provement areas identified by 2020 Vision — as part of an attempt to prepare students early on for later academic success.
Whereas the district’s statewide test scores increased overall, the district’s achievement gap between white students and their black and La-tino counterparts still exists, and is frequently called one of the worst in the state.
The Berkeley City Council and the district’s Board of Education adopted 2020 Vision in June 2008 with the goal of closing the achieve-ment gap in public schools by 2020. More than three years later, Berkeley officials maintain that strides have been made by the initiative and change is coming.
Julie Sinai, chief of staff to the Mayor Tom Bates, said that in the past few years, the goal has been to analyze and collect data over various sources to better identify the needs of students.
“What’s the data we really want to measure — do we have baseline data, or do we need to create it?” Sinai said.
Sinai said that this month, district kindergar-teners will take a universal assessment, which
By Weiru Fang | [email protected]
will inform teachers how they can be more ef-fective in the classroom, as well as provide a baseline for the percentage of kindergarteners ready for school.
According to this year’s data from the Califor-nia Department of Education, white students in the district scored more than 250 points higher than black students — an Academic Perfor-mance Index score of 908 points versus 643 points, respectively. The district’s Latino stu-dents scored 744.
Paco Furlan, principal of Rosa Parks Elemen-tary, said that many times, it is not an achieve-ment gap but an “opportunity gap,” where cer-tain students benefit from certain advantages, during the summer and after school, that others cannot afford.
Students in the district identified as socio-economically disadvantaged were 711 this year, lower than the state target of 800.
“You absolutely have to believe that every kid can learn and provide opportunities for that kid to learn,” Furlan said. “No matter where they come from ... you have to meet them where they are.”
A newcomer who assumed the role of prin-cipal in 2010, Furlan saw extraordinary test score growth at the elementary school, which met both of its state standards this year. The school saw the most growth in math and sci-ence scores.
Based on 2020 Vision’s identified problem areas, he budgeted and made funding decisions
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adminiStratiOn
campus study abroad units join to increase access for students
In an effort to increase the number of UC Berkeley students studying abroad, the campus created a single unit that combines the administration of all the campus study abroad offices.
The new office, called Summer Ses-sion, Study Abroad & Lifelong Learn-ing, combines the administration for Berkeley Programs for Study Abroad, Summer Sessions and the adult learn-ing Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, but will not cut any staff positions, ac-
By Amruta Trivediand Franklin [email protected]
cording to Richard Russo, director of the new unit, which opened Sept. 1.
The consolidation of the sum-mer session and academic year study abroad programs will mean that stu-dents can receive advising for both study abroad options at one on-cam-pus location, as opposed to in the past, when advising for the programs was in two separate offices. However, though student advising has been consolidated, the two institutions’ of-fices have remained separate.
“The main purpose of consolidating the units is to facilitate and try to tri-ple the number of Berkeley students going abroad,” Russo said.
The timeline to meet this goal has
yet to be set, said Barbara Tassielli, assistant director of the Berkeley Study Abroad program. The campus currently sends about 1,200 students abroad every year, giving it the sec-ond highest study abroad rate among UC campuses, trailing only UC Santa Barbara, where the UC Education Abroad Program is based.
The campus began this restructur-ing project after observing UCLA’s success with a similar reorganization, according to Russo.
“This reorganization was done solely to improve and meet the needs of Berkeley students and increase our
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students present postcards in support of DreaM act
Student leaders from California’s public higher education institutions teamed up Monday to present Gov. Jerry Brown’s staff with 11,309 post-cards, each urging the governor to sign the second part of the California DREAM Act — AB 131 — into law.
Luis Quinonez, a staff member for the bill’s author, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, joined student leaders from the University of Califor-nia, California State University and
By Jessica Rossoni and Chris Yee [email protected]
higher educatiOn
California Community Colleges in a press conference to show support for the act — which would allow certain non-resident and undocumented stu-dents access to state financial aid for the first time.
The press conference was followed by a meeting in which the postcards were presented to several of Brown’s staff members.
The governor has until Oct. 9 to sign the bill into law.
Joey Freeman, UC Berkeley ASUC external affairs vice president and Jeremy Pilaar, UCSA board member, brought a delegation of 15 UC Berke-ley undergraduates to join the more
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Op-ed: Chancellor Birgeneau discusses why UC Berkeley’s
educational mission should extend to all
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save $75 million annually — drafted suggestions for numerous changes to the operation of advis-ing across the campus, stating that advisers spend too much time on administrative tasks and not enough time meeting with students.
The Advising Toolkit proposal — approved by the initiative coordinating committee June 23 — calls for the creation of an online portal which would replace paper forms, schedule appoint-ments electronically and allow advisers to take notes and view student records.
The portal would cost the campus $5.2 million
to implement and would then save about $5.9 mil-lion annually, according to the proposal summary.
According to initiative communications man-ager Bill Reichle, the executive committee has not decided if it will grant the proposal final approval.
“The Executive Committee is reviewing all stu-dent services technology proposals and has asked the team to better quantify savings estimates as well as identify additional funding sources for these proposals,” he said in an email.
On Sept. 8, the team presented another pro-posal to the coordinating committee — expected
to be approved Sept. 22, Reichle said — to estab-lish a nine- to 11-member advising council for the campus, which would be led by an advising administrator hired for a five-year tenure. After those five years, the council would become a vol-unteer committee with rotating leadership.
The committee would be charged with “work-ing to achieve advising excellence through as-sessment, knowledge sharing, training, and tal-ent development” by standardizing policies and practices across campus advising departments,
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on the blogsTravel BlogA LANGUAGE OF ONE’S OWN: A summer in Egypt lends itself to profound reflections on distance and displacement. What does it mean to call a culture your own? Sarah Mohamed analyzes her own duality by looking through her grandmother’s eyes.
STILL SWIMMING: From the U.S. to Taiwan and back again. Moving between cultures can make you feel like a fish that’s scooped out of one ocean and thrown into a totally new one, though Sara Hayden seems to have done pretty well navigat-ing them both.
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ADVISING: Similar programs already exist at other UC campuses
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RESTRUCTURING: Office to create new travel study programs
ability to accommodate the growing number of students (studying abroad),” Russo said.
According to Russo, the consolida-tion does not save the campus money but has allowed the new study abroad office to add one more full-time study abroad adviser. In addition to pro-viding a one-stop advising location for both summer and academic year abroad programs, the new unit will also facilitate the creation of a sus-
tainable revenue model similar to the one the summer session office had fol-lowed.
The summer session previously of-fered short-term travel study options, which may be expanded to the aca-demic year through the consolidated unit. Russo also said that the new office will develop study abroad pro-grams specific to UC Berkeley, such as short-term travel study and faculty-led international programs catered direct-
ly to UC Berkeley students.“There is the capacity for the new
office to create new options,” Tassielli said. “But for the time-being and fore-seeable future, we are a continuation of UCEAP and summer session travel study.”
Tassielli said that although the con-solidation would make it easier for stu-dents to receive advising, the way stu-dents apply for study abroad programs would remain the same.
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DREAm: Students across state show support of act to governor
than 65 students from across the state.
“If we are going to be an equitable institution, then everyone should have a fair shot at higher education,” Free-man said. “I definitely think today was a successful event. It brought attention to a really important issue.”
According to Freeman, there were several media outlets, including at least six television stations, that sent representatives to cover the event.
Although Brown has previously stat-ed that he would sign the bill should it arrive at his desk, Brown spokesperson Evan Westrup said in an email that his office would not weigh in on legislation prior to the governor taking action on
the bill.Cedillo — author of both parts of
the California DREAM Act — had originally planned to attend the press conference but told event organizers Sunday night that he had a “commit-ment conflict in his district” and would send a representative in his stead, ac-cording to Darius Kemp, UC Student Association communications and or-ganizing director.
Conrado Terrazas, communica-tions director for Cedillo, said that although the event was not officially sponsored by Cedillo’s office, the as-semblyman appreciated the students’ actions.
“(Today’s event) demonstrates the
strength and support that the DREAM Act has with the students of the UCs,” Terrazas said. “We are hopeful that he will sign it, but we are asking our sup-porters to contact (Brown) and urge him to sign the bill.”
Despite Cedillo’s absence, Kemp said he felt that the presentation would make just as significant an impression due to the sheer number of postcards created by California students in sup-port of AB 131.
“We wanted to bring the cards to the governor because we wanted him to have a visual memento of the hard work that the UC students have done to get this bill signed right now,” Kemp said. Ledge sitters to complete community service
Seven protesters from the March 3 ledge-sit pled no contest to a misde-meanor charge for disturbing the peace Monday at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. Per an agreement between the district attorney’s office and defense counsel, the charge will be converted into an infraction if protesters complete 30 hours of community service by Nov. 18. The agreement also requires protesters to keep away from Wheeler Hall until their community service has been regis-tered with the court but allows them access to the hall for “lawful conduct.” ...
Thousands of Berkeley residents flocked to the Solano Stroll this weekend. The annual event featured a variety of food vendors and musical performances.
the proposal states.Putting “policy development” in the
hands of the council rather than depart-ments is expected to save $940,000 annually, according to the proposal. Increased efficiency will cut $1,100 an-nually from “advising students who are simply confused because they do not have access to information about their finances” and $37,000 annually from advising students about their degree status, the proposal states.
According to Mark Gotvald, a col-lege adviser in Letters and Sciences Undergraduate Advising, online por-
tals have already seen success at other UC campuses, including UC Davis and UCLA.
“Such a portal would obviously free up advisers to see students, rather than process petitions,” he said in an email. “It would save hours of time each week that advisers spend answering phone calls from students seeking to schedule appointments.”
The proposal also predicts that stu-dent satisfaction with improved advis-ing services will increase the percentage of alumni who donate to the campus from 18 percent to 20 percent.
Student services initiative manager Anne De Luca and project sponsors Cathy Koshland and Harry Le Grande could not be reached for comment.
However, the proposals fail to take the unique needs of advisers into account, according to Richard Walker, vice chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association and campus professor of geography.
“There is a constant interaction to get it right and to make majors run smoothly,” he said. “I’m dubious if this is going to be used as an excuse to cut — there is no leeway left in cutting departmental staff.”
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3OPINION & News The Daily CalifornianTuesday, September 13, 2011
Jack Wang [email protected]
Three years ago, a sportswriter told me you should never be a fan of the team you cover. I’m
still trying to decide if he was right.I now cover the football team for
the Daily Cal, and I’m starting my second year on the job. It’s the coolest gig around, and I’m incredibly fortu-nate to have it — even if it pays me nothing besides memories and free entrance to every home game.
But chances are I care less than you do when the clock runs out.
When I tell people where I work, they often assume that I’m obsessed with the fortunes of Cal football. That’s not entirely false, I suppose. I scan through countless stats and quotes each week. I need to remem-ber the numbers and faces of most of the team. When I write lengthy fea-ture articles, ideas constantly bounce around in my head for days on end.
A Cal loss, however, doesn’t both-er me anymore. That might be part-ly because I’ve simply gotten used to them, but my job is to write about the team as objectively as possible.
Sportswriting and fandom don’t have to be mutually exclusive, as Bill Simmons’s wild success will attest, but it does help. The blue and gold faithful have long worn Rose Bowl-tinted glasses, which helped make Cal one of the most statistically over-rated teams in the past five years.
So I try to pull back. I sometimes think about whether or not this makes me a bad sports fan. Is some part of my sports-obsessed self lost forever? Has the job sucked some of the joy out of watching sports? Is this the real-life equivalent of being attacked by a Dementor?!
Big Game 2010: Cal’s worst loss to Stanford since 1930. My best
friend from high school turned down Harvard for Stanford, and that 48-14 dismantling gave him the first win of our college careers.
And strangely enough, I didn’t feel particularly distraught when he rushed the turf at Memorial Stadium, echoing what I did across the Bay one year prior. Maybe the slightest of twinges, but nothing that distracted me from how incredibly good at football Andrew Luck is. (What did hurt? Losing my second
consecutive Ink Bowl — an annual flag football game against The Stanford Daily. Fuck those guys.)
Maybe part of this was a coping mechanism. I did start the beat on what became Jeff Tedford’s first-ever losing season at Cal.
It takes more than a win over Colorado to get my heart pump-
ing. Cal baseball managed to do this with a stunning run to the College World Series a few months back, less than a year after the team was cut by the administration. The Bears did it in Big Game 2009, the greatest foot-ball game I’ve ever seen in person.
There’s a plus side, too, I think. I get excited by stellar plays in general, even when they come at Cal’s expense (YouTube “Andrew Luck, Sean Cattouse”). I can see the big picture.
I have other teams I follow with unbridled fervor. No young boy becomes a sports fan without latch-ing on to something or someone, and maybe it’s a detriment to the craft of sportswriting to dismiss that.
The aforementioned sportswriter, who still writes for the Chronicle, was from the old school — the type that still eschews recorders for illegible shorthand. In opposition to him is the blogosphere, which the old school will say is run by a bunch of moronic fans who shouldn’t be granted access.
But there are some solid blogs out there, even if they’re outnumbered by horrid ones. Some don’t make much attempt at objectivity; it’s not as if we’re handling court cases here.
I probably won’t be a sportswriter forever. And somewhere deep down, I still bleed blue and gold. OK, scratch that — leak blue and gold.
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Housing
Developer may take on public housing project
The Berkeley Housing Authority received a recommendation from one of its subcommittees Thursday regard-ing its impending decision to choose a developer to rehabilitate the city’s 75 public housing units.
The housing authority has now en-tered into an exclusive negotiating rights agreement with housing devel-opment company The Related Com-panies of California, LLC, after the agency’s joint finance and feasibility subcommittee recommended the com-pany be chosen to take on the units.
The housing authority, which man-ages 75 public housing units at 18 sites
By Anjuli Sastry | [email protected]
across the city, was given permission by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to sell the units last December, and had been search-ing for a development organization for the past year to purchase the units — finally receiving proposals from The Related Companies of California, LLC and another development firm, Pacific Development, LLC.
In January, the housing authority employed EJP Consulting Group — a consulting firm that collaborates with governments as well as private and nonprofit clients on urban revitaliza-tion projects — to review the develop-ment proposals, alongside an outside panel made up of Berkeley Housing Advisory Commission members and city staff, according to Kathleen Sims,
project manager.“Essentially, after reviewing the
units … we asked the housing author-ity to improve the condition of prop-erties or find someone to do it,” Sims said. “The cost of improvements were in millions, and because the Berkeley Housing Authority was a very small housing authority, they did not have resources financially, so they brought in another strategic planner to look into their options.”
The agreement allows the company to enter into a 90-day period with a possible extension of 30 days to discuss business terms involving the negotia-tion and transference of the units.
Commissioner Mark Sawicki served on the outside panel that reviewed the
Commission: PAGE 7
Board to consider another charter school petitionLocaL scHooLs
In the wake of the opening of Berke-ley Unified School District’s first char-ter school late last month, the district’s Board of Education will consider another charter school petition this week.
At its meeting Wednesday, the board will review a proposal from Oakland-based Integrity Educational Center, which resubmitted a petition to the district after having its first charter pe-tition denied earlier in the year.
James Madden, lead petitioner and principal of the proposed school, said he feels his school would provide a much-needed service to the district’s students.
“The idea of this school is to pro-vide hope for young people who may
By Jamie Applegate | [email protected]
not have been successful in a tradi-tional school setting,” Madden said. “The focus is a dropout prevention. We want to motivate kids to get their high school diploma and provide them with a trade. We will address students who have traditionally fallen by the wayside.”
Madden said he thinks his school will fill a niche by teaching practical skills that will help students get a sta-ble job after graduation.
“There are plenty of charter schools, but they’re not schools focused on dropout recovery,” he said. “There are plenty of schools, but few will offer signature programs that I would offer, like a career center program that has students working who will help other students learn to fill out a resume.”
Madden originally submitted a pro-posal to the board June 29, which the board discussed and ultimately de-nied.
District Superintendent Bill Huyett said the original petition was denied for reasons including a lack of compli-ance with state guidelines and proof that the program would be sustainable over the long term.
“Programs where you’re recover-ing students, that’s a hard task to do,” Huyett said.
He added that he thinks the dis-trict is diligent in its review of charter schools, particularly about ensuring a school meets state guidelines.
“It’s very important that whoever operates a school does a good job be-cause we do,” he said. “We have high-quality schools throughout the dis-trict, and we want to make sure that if a charter school is offered, it’s high quality.”
Madden said he is hopeful the board will approve the school’s peti-tion with the changes that have been made to it.
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public, but it would also distin-guish and identify reporters, denying them the ability to trans-form into that fly on the wall.
It must then be up to reporters themselves to acknowledge the repercussions of covering a pro-test and to not interfere with the actions of police officers. When an officer instructs them to move, they should do so. To behave oth-erwise is to break down the fourth wall separating the reporter from the story and from its characters, becoming a participant in the news rather than an objective witness.
Journalists certainly implicate themselves in much more serious situations — abroad in war zones and domestically in tracking dan-gerous criminals. In these cir-cumstances, the risks are under-stood. When covering a protest, reporters too must be mindful that without proper press cre-dentials, they may be subject to arrest when a scene gets heated or when they are in fact becom-ing obstacles. While reporters must be protected from legal ramifications resulting from their work as journalists, they must also shoulder the responsibility for their own well-being and practices.
The role of a journalist is not to obstruct but to remain a fly on the wall and a dili-
gent observer. A reporter’s pri-mary objective is to disseminate accurate accounts of current events to the public, and to inform without bias. But to restrict a reporter’s ability to follow the ebb and flow of a given event hinders that reporter’s ability to thor-oughly fulfill that purpose.
We are therefore concerned about a BART official’s statement Friday to the San Francisco Chronicle that, during protests, the agency may sanction “media areas” guarded by a police line. Journalists who cross the line could be subject to arrest. We acknowledge that BART may be seeking to better accommodate journalists, especially after at least six were handcuffed and detained amid a protest last Thursday. We also recognize the frustration and difficulty officers experience when attempting to distinguish journalists from civil-ians recording an event with their camera phones. But essentially caging journalists in order to pro-tect them is not the role of the police. Not only would this impede reporters’ ability to fully deliver the facts of an event to the
Media cannot be cagedBAY AREA AFFAIRSBART suggests creating a “media area” during protests, but it is not the role of police to protect reporters in this way.
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come to make friends and weave themselves into the fabric of the campus’ social network — the dorms. UC policy is clear: a stu-dent whose drinking habits impair “work performance, scholarly, activities, or student life” may face “corrective action, up to and including dismissal.” Resident assistants prohibit underage drinking, causing students to hide stashes in mini-fridges behind closed doors.
That is where the trouble begins — in the foundation of the rela-tionships between resident assis-tants and their charges. The role of the resident assistant should not be to admonish those who choose to drink. Establishing trust, open-ness and an understanding that the resident assistant is there to help is key in ensuring that haz-ardous drinking does not happen behind closed doors. It increases the chance that students will be taken care of if they do imbibe too much, even if that means whisking them to the hospital.
The campus should view UCPD’s statistics as a red flag and should assist the dorms in redefining resi-dent assistants’ role. We encour-age students to put health and safety first.
At universities nationwide, the same weary mantra plays out semester after
semester — college students binge-drink in dorms and anywhere that will serve hard liquor. UC Berkeley is no different, and we recognize that this is to be expected, but the spike in students rushed to the hospital for alcohol intoxication this fall is troubling.
UCPD statistics show that between the move-in and Labor Day weekends, twice as many students were sent to the hospital compared to the same period last year. While we recognize that this jump may indicate increased reporting and that the number of calls — 13 — is small relative to the student population, we are concerned about the level of sup-port provided to students.
Students are often hesitant to seek aid for a friend because of the consequences that the friend may face. Students should have resourc-es they can turn to for assistance and a support system that is open and accommodating. The priority should be to offer students proper care. Fear of disciplinary action should not deter calling for help.
Change must originate in the very place where new students
Alcoholic awarenessCAMPUS ISSUESThe increase this year in alcohol-related casualty calls by students indicates the campus environment must change.
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How the DREAM Act may be a mirage
Assembly Bill 131, the second half of the so-called “DREAM Act,” is on its way to the Governor’s desk. Despite its name, it offers little more than a mirage to the students it promises to help and a nightmare to the citizens whose hard-earned dol-lars will be used to fund it.
As a graduate of UC Irvine who worked his way through to pay out-
By Tim Donnelly Special to the Daily [email protected]
of-state tuition the first year until he became a legal resident, I understand both the cost and the value of an edu-cation.
California’s UC and CSU systems are currently facing the most drastic bud-get cuts that we have seen in a genera-tion — more than $1 billion. At the same time, the state is hiking tuition rates on all students by 10 to 12 percent while students compete in lotteries to get enough classes to graduate.
As citizens continue to struggle through what may come to be known as the Second Great Depression, it is an insult to every California citizen
who subsidizes the university system to pass this fiscal nightmare.
The state has told students that it does not have adequate funds to pay for enough classes so they can gradu-ate in four years. Now, California is even actively recruiting out-of-state students to help fill the education budget gap. Still, the Legislature pur-ports to have miraculously found $40 million to fund the dreams of these illegal students, on top of offering them in-state tuition rates.
It is absurd. Even the governor has
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Op-ED | Opposing the California DREAM Act
WHAT THEY SAID
“I know that I stand here today as the result of a great public education. Public education is the lifeblood of our democracy. Public education in this great state and this great nation is the equalizer of our society.”— Assemblymember Gil Cedillo
(D-Los Angeles)
gilcedillo
“This bill is like a coach of a team saying ‘Yeah, I’ll let you on the team, and I’ll make you practice, you’ll do the wind sprints, you’ll go through all the drills, but I can’t legally let you in the game.”
— Assemblymember Chris Norby (R-Fullerton)
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“I too share the compassion and the under-standing of what these kids bring to our economy, to our future. I agree with literally everything that’s been said on this floor, but I don’t feel that until there is truly federal immigration policy ... or we take the penalties off employers for hiring ... I just regretfully can’t support this today.”
— Assemblymember Bill Berryhill (R-Ceres)
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“Anything that’s going to advance the cause of our people — whatever their background, their color, their religion, their political philosophy — all of that is secondary to the fact that we’re Californians together. There’s a dream, and that dream is fulfilled by the human imagination nurtured in schools, but also nurtured in neighborhoods.”— California Governor Jerry Brownjerry
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Elected officials in the state capital debate the California DREAM Act
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2012. I have already made an approach for private support to a foundation that is a leader in social justice issues and believes in enabling all people to reach their full potential, as do we at UC Berkeley.
AB 131, which was passed by the legislature and is on its way to Gov. Brown’s desk, will further level the playing field by making undocumented stu-dents eligible for state funding such as Cal Grants, effective January 2013. If the bill is enacted, as we have every reason to believe that it will UC esti-mates that approximately 800 undergraduate stu-dents eligible under AB 540 would meet the requirements for participation in the Cal Grant Entitlement program. While it is impossible to determine exactly how many undocumented stu-dents who are eligible for need-based financial aid attend UC Berkeley, our best estimates indicate that we have approximately 60.
California can take the lead in helping to reframe the national conversation on investing in undocu-mented students. Rather than representing a finan-cial loss for the state, these students will have the opportunity to contribute to the economic and social vitality of California. Supporters of AB 540 are exploring ways in which these students, once they graduate, can find legal employment, thereby ensur-ing that they are integrated into California’s profes-sional community, are able to put their degrees to good use and are one step closer to citizenship. I recently had the opportunity to speak to President Obama directly about the DREAM Act. He empha-sized that California cannot afford to waste one sin-gle talented person and that as a nation, we must not neglect individuals who can become tremendous assets to the United States.
UC Berkeley has been a state and national leader in addressing issues of equity, access and afford-
ability. That tradition is only strengthened in times of economic hardship — we have
more low-income students attending UC Berkeley today than at any time in our
history. We are proud of our public mission to serve all Californians,
including helping those talented, economically disadvantaged
undocumented students who through their merit have
earned a place at UC Berkeley.
Robert J. Birgeneau is the
chancellor of UC Berkeley.
of Assemblymember Gil Cedillo, two bills, AB 130 and AB 131, were put forward in the Legislature that would allow financial support for undocu-mented students.
I personally traveled to Sacramento to testify on behalf of both bills with Mr. Cedillo and witnessed our legislators moved by the testimony of many undocumented students as they talked about their hopes and dreams for higher education and the hardships and challenges that they encoun-t e r e d . The principles behind AB 130 a n d 131 reflect UC Berkeley’s institu-tion- al identity as an engine of social and economic mobility, providing
access and affordability that allows promising students of exceptional caliber to pur-sue higher education.
AB 130 was recently passed and signed into law by Gov. Brown. It enables all students who qualify for nonres-ident tuition exemp-tion to be eligible to compete for scholar-ships that are paid
for with private donor funds
awarded by the university,
beginning on Jan. 1,
With the passage of AB 540 in 2001, the state of California allowed any students who had spent at least three years in a California secondary school, graduated and earned admission to college to be treated as Californians paying resident tuition. The leg-islators responsible for AB 540 recognized that many undocumented students who are products of California’s education system were brought here as young children not knowing that they did not have proper legal status. These talented and ambitious young people have earned the opportunity to attend college and deserve to be treated justly and fairly.
However, while enabling undocumented students to pursue a public education In California, the Legislature stopped short of making any provision for financial aid, without which the expenses of attending are too onerous for many. UC Berkeley’s tuition is $11,200, and the total cost of attending is as much as $32,600 per year. This is insurmountable for the vast major-ity of undocu-mented students. By comparison, their fellow California resi-dents from families with low incomes who qualify for aid are required to contribute as little as $8,000 to their educa-tion through work-study and loans.
Thanks to the leadership
By Robert J. Birgeneau Special to the Daily [email protected]
Educating undocumented students is an important reflection of our public mission in economically-challenging times
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donnelly: Assemblyman questions cost of California DREAM Act to state, studentsof legal residence
expressed reservations about funding this subsidy in our cur-rent economic state.
This bill institutes an expansion of funding for one category of stu-dents while requiring others to pay more on their behalf. This is unfair, fiscally irresponsible and bound to encourage more illegal immigration, which already costs between $11 billion and $22 bil-lion across the country annually. I believe we need more legal immi-gration. This bill, however, entices more people to come here in the most dangerous way possible.
By creating a new entitlement for those who are in the country illegally, we are engraving an invi-tation to those who have not yet come — what are you waiting for? Not only do we offer a K-12 educa-tion, a myriad of welfare programs and in-state tuition, but now we will tax the citizens of California to provide additional financial aid for your child’s college education. In the end, though, the dreamlike promises still fall short.
Students who are in the coun-try illegally cannot legally get a job in California, regardless of the degree they obtain. So, arguments that this is an investment are, at best, misguided. Worse yet, I fear that this bill does nothing but prolong the inevitable realization that to fully participate in society, these students must go through the honorable process to become citizens. Only then can they truly pursue the American Dream. AB 131 is merely a cruel hoax on both the future ”dreamers” and the cit-izens who are forced to give up their child’s dream to fund this nightmare bill.
Tim Donnelly is a California State Assemblymember represent-ing the 59th State Assembly District.
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Some of the city’s public housing units are located on Ward Street. The Berkeley Housing Authority aims to rehabilitate many of them.
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Commission: City Council has shown interest in allocating some funds to public housing repairs
developers’ proposals and said the Related com-pany proposed doing more rehabilitation with the funding at hand.
“Some of the things that we liked about the Re-lated proposal was that they had more experience with what was being requested, and proposed do-ing more rehabilitation with increased funding,” Sawicki said.
Vincent Casalaina, chair of the commission, said the Berkeley City Council has shown interest in al-locating some funds to the project out of the city’s Housing Trust Fund — which has been sustained primarily by federal funds in order to provide as-sistance for nonprofit developers to develop proj-ects around Berkeley — but the Related company will be in charge of raising the majority of project funds.
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BART officials propose designating area for reporters at protestsBy Annie Sciacca | [email protected]
Following the detention of at least six journalists at a protest Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials have pro-posed new guidelines for media that would create a designated area in the station for reporters to cover protests.
The idea is to have reporters stand behind a line to ensure their safety and make it easier for BART police to differentiate protesters from the me-dia, according to BART spokesperson Jim Allison.
Allison said a media barrier would re-duce the risk of reporters being detained in a situation like that of San Francisco Chronicle reporter Vivian Ho, who was detained during last Thursday’s pro-test after being identified by Allison as a Chronicle reporter. Ho said she was detained for about 15 minutes as police reviewed her press badge.
She added that it is important that the media are present at protests to cover the actions of protesters and police alike.
“The press needs to be there for both sides,” she said. “We’re keeping both sides accountable.”
Before the recent wave of protests — in response to the fatal shooting of
vagrant Charles Hill on July 3 and the transportation agency’s decision to cut cellphone service during an Aug. 11 protest — BART officials were fa-miliar with certain members of the media and did not consistently check press passes, according to BART Di-rector Lynette Sweet. Now that there are so many new reporters covering protests, it has been more difficult for officials to differentiate protesters from reporters, Sweet said.
Stephen Proctor, managing editor of the Chronicle, said creating a zone for the media can be helpful and is sometimes necessary.
“As long as a journalist is able to witness the story unfold, reasonable controls are fine and necessary,” Proc-tor said.
He added that a protest situation is comparable to an event like a fire, in which reporters would be asked to stand at a certain distance for safety reasons. However, he said, such re-strictions should not prevent journal-ists from doing their jobs.
“A situation (like Thursday’s) — re-porters being handcuffed in the course of their duties — those things are un-necessary and unacceptable,” he said.
Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra — a magazine published by media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Re-
porting — said he was more skeptical of BART’s intention to create a media zone during protests.
Naureckas said it is similar to the idea of shutting down phone and so-cial media communication on public
transportation — an “absurd idea” and an attempt to keep people from know-ing what the government is doing.
“The best way to keep journalists from being detained is to not detain them,” he said.
A train arrives at the Ashby BART station on Monday. Following the detention of six journalists at a protest last week, BART officials have proposed new media guidelines.
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Study indicates symbiotic species can reconnect after separation
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A study by UC Berkeley researchers is leading to new evolutionary knowledge of how symbiotic species can reestablish a connection after being geographically separated.
The study — published Sept. 7 in the journal Biology Letters — focuses on leafflower trees and leafflower moths, which are mutually dependent. Howev-er, a study by UC Berkeley researchers in collaboration with the French Poly-nesia Terrestrial Arthropods survey and the Moorea Biocode Project found leaf-flower trees but no leafflower moths on 15 of the 17 islands in French Polynesia.
David Hembry, co-author of the study
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Chloe Hunt explains the study of leafflower trees and leafflower moths’ symbiotic relationship.
The city of Berkeley looks to fix up its public housing units.
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“The City Council has shown an interest since they allocated $236,000 in the past in order to do roof repairs on public housing so (the housing) didn’t deteriorate,” Casalaina said. “They also sug-gested using additional Housing Trust Fund money in the future.”
Sims said that though the developer’s main goal is to rehabilitate current public housing units, it is possible that they will create new units after look-ing at the scope of the project.
“They will take a look … and if there is land available for them to improve conditions of the property (they will),” Sims said. “But initially, our proposal was to rehabilitate units and bring them up to modern standards of efficiency — mainly with the roofs, drainage, plumbing and heating.”
Anjuli Sastry covers housing.
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2020: Some say district should target gap from elementary school level
accordingly, Furlan said.District superintendent Bill Huyett said though
the district can intervene at the high school level, he agrees that academic achievement must be targeted from the lower grades up.
With new programs looking to improve reading abilities amongst elementary school students on the horizon, the district is optimistic that 2020 Vi-sion will achieve its goals.
“It’s not like a train that runs down the tracks and keeps going,” Sinai said. “It’s going to be an ongoing effort to refine and readjust and take what works and move it forward.”
Weiru Fang covers local schools.
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Symbiotic: Study shows species’ mutualism can be broken and reconnected
and a graduate student in the cam-pus Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, said these findings shed new light on the island biodiversity theory, which describes how highly spe-cialized and dependent species would die out on isolated islands.
“It seemed mysterious,” he said. “I thought maybe the trees had evolved.”
The results of the three-year-long study led to the discovery that the trees did not in fact evolve but have somehow survived and re-populated without the aid of the leafflower moths. However, the moths have been able to symbioti-cally reconnect with the leafflower
trees on some of the islands.“My guess is that the moths
are good at getting caught in the wind and blow about, and periodi-cally the moths and trees find each other,” Hembry said, who spent a year and a half in French Polynesia documenting leafflower trees as part of this study.
The study showed that the moths are consistently finding the leafflower trees on every island, demonstrating that the mutualism between two species can be broken and reconnected.
“I think this will force us to real-ize that a lot of these connections can be novel,” said George Roder-ick, UC Berkeley professor in the
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management who was involved in the study. “The connections between species are not as constrained as we were thinking. It shows us that some of these associations that we thought took millions of years to establish can form and reform if you get the right species together.”
As of now, scientists are unsure of the reason as to how the leaf-flower trees continue to survive without the leafflower moths, Hembry said. However, he said that an unlikely but possible expla-nation is that the trees are being pollinated by another species or are reproducing asexually.
The next step in the research is to analyze the DNA from the different subspecies of leafflower trees in order to reconstruct the co-evolutionary history of the leafflower trees and the leafflower moths, which will help scientists understand the process of how symbiosis between species pro-motes diversification, according to Hembry.
“This will be a model system in evolutionary biological research,” Hembry said. “There will be a lot of things the leafflower trees and leafflower moths will be able to teach us. This will help us under-stand co-evolution and symbiotic relationships.”
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From Page 11
kuperberg: Cal has reloaded with talent, year after year, to become an elite volleyball program
reached their first national title match.
More than numbers and records, Cal was simply the most dominant team in the country for most of the year.
“Those wins were big,” Feller said. “Being able to sweep them for the first time was a big deal for us going into the NCAAs.”
That hasn’t changed much to this year, as the club has yet to drop a set and are ranked No. 1 in the nation.
The Bears are one of six Pac-12 teams in the top-16, and among four in the top-six.
But even in a conference with a cornucopia of capable clubs, Cal is the cream of the crop.
And it seems like the squad is only getting better.
The Bears just keep on reloading. Last year, they lost Pac-10 Player of the Year Hana Cutura and then-junior Tarah Murrey blossomed into not only one of the best outside hit-ters in the conference but also one of
the best players in the country. This season they lost star setter Carli Lloyd, the national Player of the Year in 2010, and replaced her with the effective and efficient Elly Barrett — a top recruit back in 2009 — who has guided the team to a spotless record and its highest ranking in program history.
Oh yeah, Cal’s freshman class is ranked No. 6 by PrepVolleyball.com.
Stanford is not longer the team in the West with biggest target on its
back; that red circle is firmly planted on the Bears.
That’s fine with Feller’s squad.“Stanford has an awesome team,”
Murrey said, “(but) we’re going to ... go out there with the mentality that we’re going to win.
“And we’re going to do it.”Cal isn’t just a top team; it’s a pow-
erhouse now.It’s more than just a Final Four
squad; it has become a champion-ship-caliber program — year in and year out.
The Bears came a few plays away from winning the crucial second set against Penn State in the national championship match in 2010 — a set that would have changed the match around and just might have given them the momentum they needed to seize the crown.
They came close. They’ve felt the roar of the Nittany
Lions for four years straight now, and the time for the Bears to bite back beckons.
The road begins tonight.
From Page 11
Volleyball: After losing both Big Spike matches in 2010, Stanford looking for revenge against Cal
Cal setter Elly Barrett has spent 2011 trying to fill the role left open by the departure of Carli Lloyd, the 2010 National Player of the Year. Stanford has been looking to replace outside hitter Alix Klineman, the 2010 Pac-10 Player of the Year, and setter/outside hitter Cassidy Lichtman, a two-time AVCA First Team All-American.
Senior Tarah Murrey, who cur-rently leads the Bears in kills with 103 on the year, claims that the squad isn’t even thinking about what happened in 2010.
“That’s last year, so we’re not at all worried about that,” Murrey said. “We just go out there and play one match at a time. You always want to step out there and say, ‘we’re number one,’ and have the confidence to play and always win.”
Though both squads are boast-ing flawless records, their roads into Tuesday’s matchup couldn’t be more different.
Of Stanford’s six tilts, three have been against top-25 teams, includ-ing a 3-1 win over four-time defend-ing national champion Penn State, in which standout sophomore Rachel Williams finished with 22 kills and 12 digs.
Of the 10 teams that Cal has faced in 2011, only three currently have winning records. The only opportunity that the Bears have had to face elite players have come in their own scrimmages against each other.
“In practice, we play very high competition in playing against each other,” Murrey said. “We have a lot of work to do, but the more prac-tices we have and the more matches we play, we will be the best team (in the Pac-12).”
Cal will likely see the return of outside hitter Correy Johnson, who missed Saturday’s match against Georgetown due to a sore hip. The team claims that Johnson’s injury is minimal, and missing time Saturday night was just a precautionary measure.
Fatigue could potentially be an issue for the Bears, as they are cur-rently in the midst of hosting seven home games in eight days. But hav-ing competed in four matches this past weekend, playing just one comes as a relief.
“It’s a lot easier to prepare and play just one match,” Murrey said. “We love to play Stanford. They have an awesome team, but we’re going to go out there with the men-tality that we’re going to win.
And we’re going to do it.”
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emma lantos/fileAll-American outside hitter Tarah Murrey (4) leads the No. 1 Bears as they aim to sweep their bitter rivals again this season.
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10 SportS & Marketplace Tuesday, September 13, 2011The Daily Californian
To anyone who’s ever walked past Eshleman Hall, it’s pret-ty much impossible to miss
“The Daily Californian” spelled out in monolithic letters across the sixth floor windows. But the only letters that really matter are “LIF.” Why? Because that’s where the sports desk hunkers down.
I’m not an expert when it comes to sports. I’m a huge fan, and I know the basics, but I grasp for straws whenev-er the other guys discuss March Madness games from 2002. Odds are I was still playing Barbies with my sister after school in those days.
I’ve officially been working at the sports section for one year. For what-ever reason (I know it’s not my habit of missing deadlines) they’re still let-ting me stick around. And I wouldn’t give this gig up for the world.
To cover Cal sports draws from every end of the spectrum. Maybe you’ll be dealt the volleyball team — a firing squad that refuses to fall into complacency, even while holding
Livin’ the sportswriter
life below the ‘LIF’
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Press room BAnterdown the nation’s top ranking. If you’re starting out, you get to experi-ence the baptism-by-fire experience of covering a smaller sport you might-know nothing about. If you’re a veter-an, you tackle the top of the pyramid: football, men’s basketball or baseball.
And if you’re me, you’re lucky, because you soak up each new expe-rience before casually playing it off. Yeah, I interviewed gold medalist Nathan Adrian last winter for a swim preview, no big deal. Yeah, I probably broke a few rules forcing my way into Spieker Aquatics Center for a story, but that’s just a day in the life.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m crazy for actively pursuing this, for often-times placing a job that doesn’t pay me ahead of my mountainous course load. What keeps up this drive? What keeps me coming back when I’m stressed out and missing quotes and reworking ledes up there on the sixth floor? It’s gotta be love.
It’s hard to love something as transient as sports. I mean, scores and rankings change. Plays are made or broken. Athletes get injured or say ridiculous things or face criminal charges. Coaches give inspiring speeches, then dodge tough post-loss questions. It’s the same formula repeated every week, every season. It’s rare that something like The Play accumulates mythic staying power; even this past weekend’s OT win against Colorado will fall to the way-side in a few months.
And yet I love it, transiency and all. I love that there is always something new and exciting to watch and say. I love the spins we create within the confines of a few columns. I even love stalking the players. As Earl Warren once said, the sports section records man’s triumphs. It bears witness to the drama of human existence boiled down to a single game through which everyone else vicariously lives. Few things have the power to unite an entire nation like the World Cup or the Super Bowl. Few things are as mesmerizing or heart-pounding.
But to me, those few things are everything.
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In 2010, the Cal volleyball team took a major step in asserting its sta-tus as the team to beat in the confer-ence by sharing the title with Stanford.
In 2011, the team will be looking to take it one step further.
The No. 1 Bears (10-0) will play host tonight at 7 p.m. to No. 2 Stanford (6-0) at Haas Pavilion in what will be the first match of the Pac-12 season for both clubs. It will be the fourth match in history that both clubs are ranked in the top-five.
By Connor Byrne | [email protected]
Top-ranked Bears host No. 2 Cardinal to open Pac-12 play
From back
murrey: Athletic family helps outside hitter leap into national spotlight and reach new heights
through the tall, thick brown grass in her Bay Area backyard.
“I’d be by myself playing like I was a lion in the jungle or something, having the best time by myself,” Murrey says. “I have a very active imagination, I guess you could say, like a typical child that could think of the littlest things.”
The backyard was not just reserved for solitary play or a child’s daydream-ing. It was where Murrey’s intense drive was molded and fortified, laying the groundwork for her to become the sheer athletic force she is today.
Athletic prowess was encoded into the DNA of each Murrey child.
Both her mother Barbara and father Douglas were college athletes at San Jose State, playing volleyball and bas-ketball, respectively.
Tarah’s two older brothers followed in their father’s footsteps while her sister Brittney, three years Tarah’s senior, decided to pursue her mother’s game. Brittney, who was a setter at UC Riverside, is the reason Tarah picked up a volleyball.
“I seriously wanted to be just like my sister,” Tarah says. “I was like, ‘Brittney plays volleyball, Mom plays volleyball, I have to play!’ I was pretty serious about it at a young age.”
But before Brittney and Tarah were tearing it up on the court, the duo
was tearing up the backyard.“Ruined all the plants in my court-
yard, spiked all over the plants,” their mother says.
“Almost broke a few windows spik-ing, bumping,” their father adds. “When the volleyball would get dirty from hitting the ground and their hands, you could see imprints on the side of our garage of the volleyball.
“The anatomy of a champion.”But despite all of the familial sup-
port and focus on sports, Tarah’s pur-suit was her own. She may have start-ed because her family exposed her to the game, but she continued because all the positive feedback she received. From perfecting a backset in the fourth grade to strong-arming a serve overhand while her peers struggled with underhand, Murrey garnered heaps of praise, but more importantly, found a spark that ignited her.
“Things came easier to me,” Murrey says. “I was like, ‘Whoa, this is fun. I want to get better at this. I want to keep training.’ My love for it grew just every single time we played.”
As a fourth grader, Murrey dreamed a little bigger than being a predator in the jungle — she wanted to represent her country in the Olympics. With her early start and intense dedication to the sport, Tarah had more time to refine her skills,
allowing her to quickly emerge as a standout player.
At the age of 12, Tarah traveled to St. George, Utah, to compete against girls one to three years older than her in the USA volleyball circuit.
Murrey held her own.“She had no fear,” her mother says.Her fortitude and talent continued
to develop through the USA pipeline and her four-year stint at Golden Bear Volleyball Club, a local youth team with a reputation for placing players in col-legiate programs. From the time she was a freshman at St. Mary’s High School, Murrey had college coaches swarming gyms where she was playing.
Murrey grew up around Cal sport-ing events, and went to elementary and high school in Berkeley. It was no surprise that Cal coach Rich Feller was able to lure the 2007 California Gatorade High School Player of the Year to stay in her own backyard.
Although Murrey has been a four-year starter at Cal, she didn’t debut
as the team’s top attacker in her first two years. Murrey had to adjust to being the number two outside hitter behind 2009 Pac-10 Player of the Year Hana Cutura.
Murrey’s numbers were respectable as an underclassmen but subpar for an ath-lete of her caliber, Feller says.
Murrey agrees. She wasn’t satisfied.With Cutura’s graduation, Murrey
knew considerably more balls would be coming her way, and she’d become setter Carli Lloyd’s weapon of choice. She also knew that she would be the lone junior on the squad with only two seniors, so naturally she would be thrust into a leadership role.
So she turned inward, as she did as a child, and found her drive to improve.
“I knew that I had to train harder — hitting, passing, serving, everything — to be the player I want to be,” Murrey says. “After my sophomore year, I knew that I had to make a change in how I approached the game mentally and physically.”
She sought out all the help she could get with advancing her fitness, logging extra time with the team’s strength trainer, who helped her design special workouts to maximize her results. She talked to her coaches about the things she wanted to change about her game, and they adjusted their systems to accommodate her.
She also turned to her siblings for guidance. Her brothers in particular took on brutal workouts as basketball players, inspiring their younger sister.
“They would tease Tarah from time to time because the kind of workouts you do in basketball are sometimes over and beyond,” Douglas says. “The athlete that they knew she could be I think encouraged her to do some of
the kinds of things that they were doing to bring out that athlete.”
“It was kind of like, who was going to be the biggest beast in the family?” Barbara says.
In the Murrey household, being fit was as much about physical exercise as mental training. For Tarah, competition needn’t be a team sport. While she enjoys working out with teammates, she also pushes herself on her own, using her imagination to catapult her forward.
“I definitely compete with myself,” Murrey says. “Sometimes I’ll be doing an extra set of lifting or going an extra minute on cardio or something like that, and I’ll be talking to myself: ‘You can do this. This is the last point. It’s game point. You can lift this.’”
Such dogged determination has had tremendous repercussions on her vol-leyball career: she jumps higher, hits harder and smarter, passes crisper and lasts longer during long rallies and sets. As a result of her efforts, Murrey emerged as one of the best players in the country last year, and continues to be a front-runner for National Player of the Year as a senior.
“Belief is a very powerful thing,” her father says. “I’ve seen her grow in that respect, really mature. Whereas some situation on the court maybe or socially would derail her, she’s got the emotional, mental, spiritual strength at this time.”
I t was the pivotal point in a sensa-tional season.
On Oct. 22, 2010, the Cal vol-leyball team went into Maples Pavilion on the Stanford campus and did more than just win a match — the squad made a statement.
Cal is favorite in Big Spike and will be for some time
Jonathan Kuperberg [email protected]
The Bears’ 3-1 victory over then-No. 2 Stanford catapulted them up two spots to No. 3 in the country; even more so, the win signaled something special, something momentous, something several years in the making — the changing of the guard.
Cal is the favorite in tonight’s Big Spike and will be for some time. Compared to the Bears, Stanford is now the underdog in collegiate volley-ball.
“The series is definitely a lot more competitive than ever before,” Cal coach Rich Feller said. “Any kind of victory against Stanford helps cement a little more history and a little more tradition.”
The Bears swept the Cardinal last season for the first time in 31 years. They won the conference crown and
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“It’s too early in the season for it to be ‘do or die,’” coach Rich Feller said. “But it can set the tone for the Pac-12 start, and a victory always means a lot for that.”
In 2010, Cal swept the season series for the first time in 31 years. Both matches went four sets (21-25, 25-16, 25-22, 25-16 at Stanford on Oct. 22 and 26-28, 25-17, 25-17, 25-20
on Nov. 19 at Haas Pavilion) But despite winning both tilts, the squad still had to share the conference crown with Stanford.
Still, Cal cites those two wins as having been a major factor in its eventual run to the national champi-onship game.
“Those wins were big,” Feller said. “Being able to sweep them was a big deal for us going into the NCAAs.”
Both squads lost major contribu-tors in 2010 due to graduation.
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SportSTuesday, sepTember 13, 2011 • dailycal .org/sporTs
Tarah Murrey went up for one of her many lethal swings on Nov. 19, 2010 in the Cal volleyball
team’s match against rival Stanford. By the time she returned to the ground, so had her defender.
It’s not unusual for a libero to fall to the floor diving for a ball. It’s not unusual for the ball to hit them on places other than their arms.
But Gabi Ailes, Stanford’s libero, got hit square in the chest, and the force of the impact sent her flying
By Christina Jones | Senior [email protected]
backwards onto the gym floor.As the Bears – and the 4,000 plus
at Haas Pavilion – roared at the pure display of power, a common thought permeated the arena.
Tarah Murrey is a beast.That was just one of 24 balls Murrey
laid down that night against the Cardinal, finishing with a .356 hitting percentage against one of the nation’s best defenses to lead the Bears to their second straight win over Stanford.
That testament of her supreme ath-letic ability was not just contained to Haas Pavilion, or even crowds in oppos-ing gyms. The nation became enam-ored with Murrey’s brute strength, pure
athleticism and crafty shot selection in her breakout junior campaign.
As the 6-foot-3 outside hitter climbed into her new role as Cal’s go-to attacker that year, Murrey’s production only continued to skyrocket. The El Cerrito, Calif., product finished the 2010 season ranked third in the coun-try in kills per set, which earned her numerous accolades, including being named a first team All-American.
The volleyball world had discov-ered what Murrey often imagined she was as a child.
As a youngster, one of the future attacker’s favorite activities was lurking
Murrey: PAGe 11
Tarah Murrey, the Cal volleyball team’s All-American outside hitter, pushes herself athletically, physically
and mentally to feast on opposing players.
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“We love to play Stanford. It’s awesome to play great volleyball players. We’re really frickin’ excited to play.”
— Tarah Murrey, on tonight’s Big Spike